The Pre-Raphaelites.—­Read Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel, Sister Helen, The King’s Tragedy, Love’s Nocturne, and Mary’s Girlhood.  All of these are given in Page’s British Poets of the Nineteenth Century.  Selections may be found in Bronson,[19] IV., Century, Oxford Book of Victorian verse, and Manly, I. Selections from Christina Rossetti’s Pre-Raphaelite verse are given in all except Page.

From William Morris, read Two Red Roses Across the Moon, The Defence of Guenevere (Page’s British Poets), and the selections from The Earthly Paradise in either Page, Century, Bronson, IV., or Manly, I.

What part did Ruskin play in this new movement?  Point out the simplest, the most affecting, and the most pleasing stanza in The Blessed Damozel.  What Pre-Raphaelite qualities in this poem have made it such a favorite?  What are the chief characteristics of Rossetti’s other verse?  Note specially Miss Rossetti’s religious verse.

What Pre-Raphaelite qualities do Morris’s Two Red Roses across the Moon (1858) and The Defence of Guenevere (1858) show?  Compare this early verse with the selections from The Earthly Paradise (1868-1870).

Macaulay.—­Read either the Essay on Milton or the Essay on Addison (Eclectic English Classics or Gateway Series) or the selections in Craik, V., Manly, II., Century, or Dickinson and Roe’s Nineteenth Century Prose.

Read History of England, Chap.  IX., or the selections in Craik V., or Century, or Manly, II.

What are some of the qualities that cause Macaulay’s writings to outstrip in popularity other works of a similar nature?  What qualities in his style may be commended to young writers?  What are his special defects?  Contrast his narrative style in Chap.  IX. of the History with Carlyle’s in The French Revolution, Vol.  I., Book V., Chap.  VI.

Newman.—­The best volume of selections is edited by Lewis E. Gates (228 pages, 75 cents).  Dickinson and Roe’s Nineteenth Century English Prose contains Newman’s essay on Literature.  Selections are given in Craik V., Century, and Manly, II.

Compare his style with Macaulay’s and note the resemblance and the difference.  Why did Newman call himself a rhetorician?  What qualities does he add to those of a rhetorician?  Select passages that show his special clearness, concreteness, also his rhetorical and argumentative power.

Carlyle.—­Read the Essay on Robert Burns (Eclectic English
Classics or Gateway Series); Sartor Resartus, Book III., Chap. 
VI. (Everyman’s Library); The French Revolution, Vol.  I., Book V.,
Chap.  VI. (Everyman’s Library).  Selections may be found in Craik,
V., Century, Manly, II., and Evans’s Carlyle (Masters of
Literature).